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...based in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Pakistan has redeployed some of its military forces from the Afghan border region to the Indian border. The U.S. envoy's biggest challenge may lie in convincing the Pakistani military that its larger and better-equipped Indian rival represents no threat. It is to counteract India's conventional military superiority that Pakistan has developed unconventional capabilities, from its nuclear weapons arsenal to its covert arming and training of Islamist insurgents to fight India in Kashmir. Despite efforts of Pakistan's civilian government to retire those tactics and promote peace talks with India, critics say some...
...Diagono Tourbillon?limited to 30 platinum pieces?is an exemplar of the company's increasingly vertically integrated production. Its movement (i.e., the watch's inner workings) is made up of 200 minuscule pieces?52 in the tourbillon mechanism alone. (The tourbillon is a fancy device originally designed to counteract the effects of gravity.) Each watch is assembled from start to finish by a single craftsman at Daniel Roth & Gérald Genta, Bulgari's workshop for its most complicated timepieces, in Le Sentier, Switzerland. A "grand complication"?as the most complex watches, like Tourbillons, are called?requires more than...
...about their everyday business with rapidly moving images of explosions playing behind them on the television screen is particularly memorable. The scene seems to speak to the superficial images of violence that fully constitute Palestine in the minds of many Americans. The festival’s organizers sought to counteract what they see as a one-sided portrayal of Palestinians in news media. “The Palestinian narrative is missing from the mainstream here in the USA, where all we get is second-hand processed images whose purpose is to dehumanize Palestinians. We hoped to present an alternative...
...kettle three times a day, putting the boiled water in a flask for tea and coffee later. I only put the geyser on to have enough hot water for showers and baths. I have planted maybe 300 trees in my lifetime. All this means I am helping to counteract the environmental problem, but it will never be enough because the fundamental problem is overpopulation. Unless people realize this and do something, I don't think we will ever stop global warming. So I say bravo to all the heroes, but if we do not stem population growth their efforts will...
...counteract the hardening environment, the McCain campaign has begun to shift strategy, hoping to change the subject from the economy's woes to questions about Obama's character and readiness to lead. Over the weekend, it unleashed a torrent of fresh attacks on Obama, including a claim by Palin on Saturday that Obama was someone who would "pal around with terrorists," a reference to Obama's limited relationship with William Ayers, a former violent antiwar activist who now works as a professor in Chicago. The claim, which is supported by campaign ads that ask "Who is Barack Obama?," follow...